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I do find it interesting. In fact, while I was putting the bins out just now I caught a glance through my neighbor's French windows at the part of the same beam which runs through his adjoining apartment, and it's a totally different shape: thinner and not square like mine. So could it be...

Yeah the piece with the white marks on it is definitely solid as it extends out into the corridor adjacent to the room where you can see it in its entirety. It's about 1 foot square, and the marks are only on this piece, not the superficial 1 dimensional pieces which surround it.

Sure - as you can see it's limited to a small section of the beam towards the edge. The spots are in approximately the same place on the other side i.e. close to the same wall, but there are fewer of them.

The other boards are all planks nailed to something underneath (which is why you see a nail), but the slightly larger one with all the white blotches is indeed the reverse side of the solid beam in the first photo. I suppose it could be that something was spilled on both sides, as you...

I'm sorry if I was being stupid :confused: The reason for my concern was the existence of similar white patches on the other side of the same beam, as shown in this photo, and so I thought it might have been symptomatic of some kind of fungus inside the wood that's causing it to become...

Wut? Thanks :)

Hi guys, I was wondering whether anyone could give me some insight into what the strange white marks on my ceiling rafter are (photo attached)? They appear only on one part of the beam, but the same marks appear in exactly the same place on the opposite side of the beam in the adjoining room...